Liberia ^ 



interesting description of the condition of Liberia at the 

 beginning of the 'sixties of the last century : his writing a 

 little tinged with mahce, perchance, for to Burton the pure- 

 blooded non-Muhammadan Negro was never an object of much 

 liking. Moreover, Burton represented with some efficiency the 

 spirit of revolt at that time against the sickly sentimentalism 



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of Exeter Hall, according to which if the Negro only professed 

 Christianity he could do no wrong and need not do much work. 

 A disciple of Burton's and a writer of brilliant style, 

 Winwood Reade glanced at Liberia in 1863, and visited the 

 country in 1870, spending about three months on the coast 

 between Cape Palmas and Monrovia. He also set out on a 

 journey to Boporo with Dr. Blyden, but he has left us no clear 

 description of that Kondo town. His chapter on Liberia in the 

 second volume of 'The African Sketch-book (pubHshed in 1873) 



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